11-Year-Old Hangs Himself after Enduring Daily Anti-Gay Bullying

[Butterfly]

11-Year-Old Hangs Himself after Enduring Daily Anti-Gay Bullying
OutcomeBuffalo News
April 9, 2009


http://www.outcomebuffalo.com/bully-mass-409-2009409004.html


SPRINGFIELD, MA— An 11-year-old Massachusetts boy, Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover, hung himself Monday after enduring bullying at school, including daily taunts of being gay, despite his mother's weekly pleas to the school to address the problem. This is at least the fourth suicide of a middle-school aged child linked to bullying this year.

[NicholeW.]

Such a waste. Wonder why it's so very important that we teach our children to bully others who are different than they are? And make no mistake, WE teach them that with our lives and actions and the things we say behind the closed doors of our homes.

Nichole

[lisagurl]

We also teach that in our divisions in beliefs and marketing. We as a society preach consuming as a culture. We take from freedom and replace it with fear so we will obey the corporate line. The government has allowed corporations to control our means of support and threaten our lives with jobs. This way they can also control how we act and the culture. The schools with no child left behind reinforce those beliefs.

[Jaimey]

You know, these things keep happening and kids keep killing themselves because of bullying, yet it doesn't seem like anyone is doing anything.  It's frustrating.

[Nero]

You know, these things keep happening and kids keep killing themselves because of bullying, yet it doesn't seem like anyone is doing anything.  It's frustrating.

well Columbine seems to improved it actually. back in my day, school authorities had a riot when another kid threatened me with his father's gun. not taken seriously at all.

[Jaimey]

all my school did during that school shooting spree (Pearl, MS to Columbine...especially after the Paducah incident...that's only an hour from my hometown) was make school worse by implementing a ton of ridiculous rules like tucking in shirts, no book bags or coats in class rooms, no unnatural hair colors, no piercings except ears...they even closed one of the doors so that those of us who parked on that side of the building had to walk all the way around the building...not fun when it's 10 degrees outside and your locker isn't big enough to hold your coat. 

I swear, the people who make the rules are so out of touch with students, it's ridiculous.  If they would just address the root issues, a lot of this crap would go away.

well Columbine seems to improved it actually. back in my day, school authorities had a riot when another kid threatened me with his father's gun. not taken seriously at all.

Wow.  They did add a no tolerance rule which has it's good points, but at some points it got ridiculous.